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A collection of guides and tips useful to those seeking a new home loan, second home loan or managing their existing loan. Articles include guides to understanding the home loan application process, how banks assess you for a loan, understanding interest r...

A collection of useful information for the first home buyer including information on the home owners grant, the costs of buying a home and understanding contracts.
A Guide to Buying your First Home in Australia
The First Home Owners Grant
Understanding ...

Tips and guides to Property Investment in Australia.
Buying a Second Home
Steps to Investing in Property
Property: 10 tips for choosing the best location
Six ways to Devalue your Property
Tips: Attracting Top Tenants to your Rental Property
Property ...

Today's trending stories in Australian home ownership and Home Loans.
CBA's 'errors' over insurance problems
It will soon begin refunding $16 million to 140,000 customers who took out personal and home loan protection. It is also dropping its credit card and personal loan products, but will continue selling home loan insurance. The financial services royal commission heard CBA knew in October 2015 the...
Shortage of Gold Coast land could impact property market
The growing shorta...

Today's trending stories in Australian home ownership and Home Loans.
Sydney sellers left with no choice but to drop prices
Weakening market conditions in Sydney have forced property owners to sell their properties for up to 30% below their listed price. According to a report for The Daily Telegraph, Sydney's median home prices fell 2.5% over the past three months to March, the largest dip since August 2008 near the height...
How unclear discretionary discounts impact borrowers
A new report fr...

Today's trending stories in Australian home ownership and Home Loans.
Byron Bay retreat set to sell for $4 million with Matt Damon as star tenant
Matt Damon signed on for his next big project over the coming months on Friday, leasing a holiday house in Byron Bay that was until recently hosting his mate Liam Hemsworth and partner Miley Cyrus.
Alas, there are no purchasing plans for the US national, however, despite the Broken Head property he has leased being shopped to buyers in recent months f...

Today's trending stories in Australian home ownership and Home Loans.
Sydney’s property market ‘just keeping head above water’ as almost half of homes fail to sell at auction
Sydneys property market is only just keeping its head above waterwith almost half of homes failing to sell under the hammer last weekend.
Revised data shows the success rate of homes selling at auction in February was teetering around the 60 per cent mark, but the last two weekends just 56 per cent of homes across Sydney s...

Today's trending stories in Australian home ownership and Home Loans.
The couple who built their eco-friendly, dream home in the Byron Bay hinterland
Grant and Susanna Evington describe building their homeas both a labour of love and an obsession.
It was a long-held dream to build something from the ground up and incorporate our ideas in the architecture, saysartist Susanna.
Their idealsincluded sustainable, environmentally-friendly and non-toxic living, in a home encapsulating the Australian v...

Today's trending stories in Australian home ownership and Home Loans.
Trust, cybersecurity banks' big concerns
... and behaviour falling short of community expectations in the $1.6 trillion home lending market, as well as credit cards, home loans and mortgage brokers. ... has already heard that NAB lost control of its introducer program, where businesses are paid commissions for successful home loan referrals.
Bank's sad tale of dishonesty and delays
The first two days of evidence ha...

Today's trending stories in Australian home ownership and Home Loans.
Mortgage financing declines across the board
The mortgage market started 2018 with declines across the board, latest figures from the Real Estate Institute of Australia (REIA) revealed, as the number of owner-occupier finance commitments for January decreased by 0.7%, striking its fourth consecutive month of decline. Excluding refinancing figures...
Can anything solve Australia's affordability crisis?
To explain this mo...

Today's trending stories in Australian home ownership and Home Loans.
ANZ and NAB slash fixed rates on key mortgage products
The Big Four are progressively slashing their mortgage rates in a bid to revive demand in sluggish property markets, boost profits, and squeeze out smaller lenders who've been grabbing market share following the lending caps imposed on the biggest banks. Australia and New Zealand Banking Group...
Is your house worth more than you think? Experts reveal the features buyers...

Today's trending stories in Australian home ownership and Home Loans.
First home buyer loans swell in New South Wales
However, the most affordable market turned out to be the ACT, with its home loan affordability index sits growing by 8.6% over the past year to September quarter in 2017. It was followed by Western Australia (6.4%) and the Northern Territory (5.7%). The ACT also has the highest home loan affordability...
Lower earnings drive women away from the housing market
According to a stu...

Today's trending stories in Australian home ownership and Home Loans.
Boss of Britain’s Gravity Media John Newton set to be Malcolm Turnbull’s next-door neighbour
The head of Britains Gravity Media Group, John Newton, is not short of friends within Sydneys top corporate circles,so when the Point Piper house next door to Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull came up for sale recently it made sense that he might be an interested buyer....
Six steps to move from money stress to financial freedom
In 20...

Today's trending stories in Australian home ownership and Home Loans.
Future looking solid for housing in Far North Queensland
House prices in Cairns are likely to rise on the back of CBD developments, government spending and investment in tourism infrastructure, according to ... price growth in and around Cairns are better than recent years, with rental returns providing income along the way for residential property investors.
US mortgage rates hit 2014 levels
The rate for a 30-year fixed-rat...

Today's trending stories in Australian home ownership and Home Loans.
Canberrans acquiring mortgages at a higher rate than the rest of Oz
Residents of the federal capital continue to take up new loans at a higher rate than the rest of the country, despite the record high house prices in the ACT, according to new research from the Real Estate Institute of Australia (REIA) and Adelaide Bank. The number of new loans in Canberra increased...
Mortgage customers are happier with smaller banks
The mo...

Today's trending stories in Australian home ownership and Home Loans.
How building more houses can solve Australia's affordability crisis
There seems to be one practical solution to solve the affordability crisis of Australia's housing market: build more houses. According to a study by the Grattan Institute, building an extra 50,000 homes annually for the next 10 years could result in house prices being 5-20% lower than they would be...
RBA maintains historic low cash rate in March
Lawles...

Today's trending stories in Australian home ownership and Home Loans.
Emerging investment hotspots in Brisbane's middle ring
Brisbane's middle-ring suburbs are emerging as investment hot spots due to improvements in affordability and infrastructure, according to the Domain Group. Due to growing demand from renters, the vacancy rate has fallen from 3.4% to 2.1%, which is great news for property investors eyeing strong...
ANZ cites declining returns as proof of competition in mortgage marke...

Debt can be one of the hardest things to get out of, especially if you are unable to meet repayments. That happens to most of us at some point and to get out of hot waters, it may be a decent idea to arrange an informal arrangement with the creditors, so that they can rest assured what they are owed will be recovered and the debtor can pay on easier terms.
If you do not know how informal debt arrangements really work then here is an explanation that is fairly easy to understand. Sometimes th...

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